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KrazyHorse
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Macedonia
May 2001
time: 00:37
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http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/nati...dcow050714.html
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The American border is "immediately" open to Canadian cattle following a court decision that overturned a temporary injunction banning their importation because of fears of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as mad cow disease.
"The ruling is effective immediately, we are immediately taking steps to resume the importation of cattle under 30 months of age from Canada," said Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns in a late night statement.
The decision by the three-judge panel of the federal appeals court was released a day after the U.S. Department of Agriculture asked the court to strike down a lower court decision that kept cattle from crossing the border.
"I applaud today's [Thursday's] ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ... We have been safely importing boneless boxed beef from Canada since September 2003, and now we will use the scientific approach laid-out in our minimal risk rule to once again safely import live Canadian cattle for processing," the statement said.
"This is great news for the future of the U.S. beef industry, specifically the many ranchers, feeders, and processing plants that have been struggling to make ends meet due to the closed border."
However it is not clear what the decision means for a July 27 hearing scheduled for a Montana court, where Judge Richard Cebull – who granted the temporary injunction – was to hear arguments on making the injunction permanent.
The USDA had been ready to reopen the border on March 7, but the ranchers lobby group R-CALF convinced a Montana judge to block that decision, arguing that Canada doesn't adequately test for mad cow disease.
On July 27, Cebull will hear R-CALF's application to extend the trade ban indefinitely.
The U.S. closed its border to Canadian beef in May 2003, after the first case of BSE in a Canadian-born cow was confirmed. There have been two other positive cases since then, and the first case of BSE in the U.S. – an infected cow in Washington state in December 2003 – had been born in Canada.
Last month, the U.S. confirmed its first case of BSE in a U.S.-born cow.
The U.S. resumed the import of some cuts of Canadian beef in August 2003, but still won't allow cattle to cross the border. It had planned to start by allowing animals under the age of 30 months into the country. |
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Ben Kenobi
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McGregornobi!
Oct 2002
time: 21:37
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Lumber is the reverse. The US needs raw lumber for their mills, but Canada has more mill capacity, and would rather ship processed lumber to the US. The US has had a tariff for more than 5 years on lumber shipments to the US, but they don't have any restrictions on raw logs. Canada, understandeably, regulates the raw log exports to the US, in order to keep our own mills working with Canadian lumber.
The beef ban has two features that make it different. First of all, it is Alberta that is pinched by the beef ban, and BC that is pinched by the lumber. No one cares about BC. Secondly, there incentive on the US side to keep the tariff is that the mills in the US get to keep the payments made in tariffs from their partners in Canada, so the measure is a strict protectionist move to help them keep up with their better Canadian competitors.
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Ben Kenobi
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McGregornobi!
Oct 2002
time: 21:37
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Now, stumpage is an interesting deal. In BC, which is the largest lumber producer in Canada, it works to subsidise the coastal mills who work with cedar and hemlock on the coast. The stumpage fees make lumber in the interior, (where I am from), more costly, which makes up the vast majority of our exports to the US. In reality, the reason why Canada can ship lumber anywhere in the US more cheaply then they can, is because we have larger production capacity, better access to timber, and more efficient mills.
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